The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.
As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.
Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.
Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
It takes a very long time to become young.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.
A conductor should guide rather than command.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.
